How To Makeup Bushy Grey Eyebrows

On a Friday afternoon in W Hollywood, whilst visiting Benefit Cosmetics' "Brow Suite" at the Andaz Hotel, I experienced a revelation on par with the discoveries that yous can employ hair conditioner as shaving cream and that shaking a Polaroid picture is really a really bad idea. My epiphany? That I should exist using gray eyebrow pencil. No, I haven't gone gray from age or stress (at least not yet). Still, brows the color of my grandma's are my latest beauty obsession. Let me explain...

I have night dark-brown hair naturally, though I've had it colored a bright blonde for the past five years (shoutout Matt Rez at Meche Salon!). The beauty community is abuzz with all sorts of advice (some valid… some whack) most what color your brows should be; but, until recently, I had settled that mine should be somewhere in betwixt my chocolate dark-brown base colour and my blonde highlights. Do good's ultra-fine Precisely, My Brow Eyebrow Pencil, which comes in a whopping 12 shades, had been in my heavy rotation of products for years. I used shade #3, a warm light brown, which seemed to adapt my pare's yellow undertones and reflected both my natural hair colour and my highlights. Typically, I'd top off the pencil with a heavy glaze of fiber brow gel (my current fave is by Beautycounter) to achieve a bushy, feathered look.

Gray brow pencil is secretly a universal shade.

Merely there in that West Hollywood suite, Benefit's Global Forehead Expert Jared Bailey took one wait at me and suggested we accept my eyebrows in a wildly different direction: gray. Though my brows are non naturally grayness, he predicted that a very subtle application of night, absurd-toned pencil—merely to fill up in the sparse areas of my brows—would look more flattering than the warm brown I'd been using. That'due south considering both the brunette base and artificial blonde that comprise my hair color are cooler in tone. That is to say, at that place isn't a lot of red happening (think espresso brown, rather than auburn or mahogany, and ash blonde rather than golden). Blonde brow pencils, which are usually less red and more than taupe, would work for those with lighter base colors, but not me, because my natural brows are and so freakin' nighttime. The solution? Gray.

Brunettes-turned-cool-blondes aren't the merely candidates for grayness brows, however. "Absurd gray is a flexible brow shade that can work for a variety of unlike hair colors," says Bailey. It's an astonishing fit for those with platinum, pastel, black pilus, grayness hair, or brows that take a few grays coming in that demand camouflaging. You tin can also use it in combination with other shades, similar browns and blondes, to create texture and dissimilarity. Says Bailey: "Cool grayness is a one-shade-fits-all powerhouse!"

Grey pencils are different than black.

I'd played around with true black eyebrow products in the past—the fascination started subsequently I discovered this very intense professional forehead pencil from England, which has a jet-blackness point that y'all sharpen yourself with a bract similar something out of the Middle Ages. But blonde hair with black brows was definitely a *look,* and it got old rapidly. Grays and gray browns (like charcoal and ash) aid create that cool, bold look without seeming too harsh.

Even if your hair is blackness (or well-nigh black), greyness can beget y'all a softer expect. Try applying gray to the inner brow and soft black to the tail.

Use a light manus when applying gray brows.

Of course, going too heavy-handed with gray pencil—even if some or all of your brow hairs are naturally that color,—can darken and absurd downwards your whole face. This might brand your skin look tedious and stake. So you want to skip the thick, waxy pencils and pomades and go for a fine pencil or powder and apply actually lite strokes (and lots of blending) when applying.

For me, using a sparing amount of ashy greyness pencil on my whole forehead—equally opposed to a calorie-free or medium chocolate-brown with tons of gel on top—looked completely natural, like it was just an extension of my dark chocolate-brown brows.

These are my favorite grayness forehead products:

Benefit Cosmetics Precisely My Brow Pencil in Cool Grey $24.00

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My introduction to grayness brows, Do good'due south super fine-tipped pencil allows me to create realistic hair-like strokes in a perfect medium-gray shade, which complements my hair color shockingly well.

Clé de Peau Countenance Pencil in Grey Brown $25.00

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This aptly named half-grayness, half-brown shade is like a gateway to the globe of gray brows. The pencil'due south angled tip and easy-glide formula make creating fine strokes and shading in your brows effortless. Also, kudos to the gorge packaging.

Clinique Brow Shaper in Charcoaled $twenty.00

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Clinique also makes a shade that strikes a lovely balance between gray and brown, simply this time in powder form. This fine pressed formula makes it super easy to fill up in sparse areas of your brows without going overboard. (The product comes with an included castor, which isn't bad, though I recommend using an angled brow brush like this one past Sigma.)

Joey Healy Luxe Forehead Powder $28.00

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This deeper grayness would all-time suit those with darker brunette or blackness pilus. The production's soft texture is easy to blend and is shockingly long-lasting.

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